Obama Approval Rating Dips, Pollsters Blame President For Gas Prices
Although the GOP is struggling to put forth an accessible, relatable candidate in the 2012 election, President Obama doesn’t seem to be having an easy go of it- as his approval rating has dipped to 46% in some recent polls.
Sometimes it seems like re-election would be a slam dunk, but Obama’s fluctuating approval rating may make the race tighter than anticipated. And unsurprisingly, pain at the gas pump is what seems to be driving discontent in many Americans. The Washington Post says that in recent polling, Americans cite gas prices as the biggest influencer on Obama’s approval rating, and the paper explains:
“Gas prices are a main culprit: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation at the pump, where rising prices have already hit hard.”
It continues:
“Just 26 percent approve of his work on the issue, his lowest rating in the poll. Most Americans say higher prices are already taking a toll on family finances, and nearly half say they think that prices will continue to rise, and stay high.”
Gas prices are a hot topic right now, with many on social media sites linking to old Fox News footage (below) during which many Fox personalities asserted again and again that ”no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices,” a claim the network no longer seems to stand by. President Obama addressed the gas issue in a statement about energy, saying:
“Despite the gains we’ve made, today’s high gas prices are a painful reminder that there’s much more work to do free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil and take control of our energy future… And that’s exactly what our administration is committed to doing in the months ahead.”
Do you think gas prices will continue to affect Obama’s approval rating?
Tags : gas prices, obama approval rating, obama approval rating 2012, obama approval rating gas prices, obama approval rating march 2012
Posted: March 13, 2012
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Mar 13, 2012
So this President is to be judged in the same way every other President has been judged? Sounds fair to me.
Mar 13, 2012
Everybody knows that the republicans have sworn an oath to do anything it takes to Bring down President Obama Including manipulating Gas prices. They have nothing going for them at all not even a candidate, so let them try to influence the ignorant conservatives that the rich should continue to get there tax dollars and that the President has some kind of control over there gas prices. Next they will blame him for there toilet paper being to ruff!
Mar 13, 2012
Wow!!! this from the same party that blamed Bush for everything!!!! Talk about ignorant!!!!
Mar 13, 2012
Bush 's administration did cause all the shit we are in and if you don't understand that , You must not have lost your job or your house and your children must still have insurance and that your social security is going to be taken away and your parents social security and all the disability for the troop you say you support and for food stamps that children and poor people depend on for food. Now next you will try to tell us you are a Christian and believe in Jesus's teaching. I'm sure you haven't lost a relative in the two Illegal wars He ran for over ten years and couldn't even get Bin Laden. Ia that enough ignorance for you Mr. Veteran!
Mar 13, 2012
The President always takes the heat when gas prices rise. That will probably what the Republicans run on or maybe the birth control issues…who knows for sure?
Mar 13, 2012
15 Billion a month for over ten years and they say that hurt our economy. Thank God for President Obama who has let us to some kind of saneness. Fortunately , while they are raping you with higher taxes and reducing the rich , If you still have a job , Your lower middle class ass will be paying for it all.
Mar 13, 2012
Funny, when gas prices went up under Bush the Republicans said the President doesn't control gas prices but they changed their tune now. Gas prices are controled by oil men and Wall Street speculators and which party do the majority of them belong to. Use a legitimate argument for your dissidence.
Mar 13, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate … Relax there Leonard, Bush wasn't exactly "Mr. Conservative" when he and his administration decided to put two wars on the bill of the American tax payer. Obama is no saint and no savior, but he didn't sign and put forth the first bail out in 2008, that was Bush. So lets relax here before you go on to say something significantly ridiculous.
Mar 13, 2012
Since when do gas prices pass through the president? I never blamed Bush when gas prices were high, I just blamed the oil companies who make billions and break their own records in profits every year.
Mar 13, 2012
Oh how logic is wonderful… Thank you for pointing this out!! Spot on!
Mar 13, 2012
Ryan Carranza … I agree completely with that…I was commenting on the double standard. When the gas prices went up under Bush it was all his fault. The media even did a nightly graph on the gas prices, now its everybodies fault except obama's…
Mar 13, 2012
Birth control????? Im not really sure how that became so relivant in a presidential race. It should be on job results!!!!
Mar 13, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate When Obama took it upon himself to apologize to Ms. Fluke for Rush Limbaugh's idiotic rant, he made it clear what issues he's interested in.
Mar 13, 2012
Paula Qualls Gurley So true… Not the deficit, not the economy, nothing to do with his performance as president, but rather on a set up to deflect from the issues of real importance…
Mar 13, 2012
Theresa Zane…Funny when Bush was in the White House, the Democrats thought he was responsible for the gas prices.
Mar 13, 2012
Paula Qualls Gurley That's right and they were just as wrong then as the Republicans are now. I can't believe you people can't come up with something legitimate instand of things you know from your own experience are not true.
Mar 13, 2012
Paula Qualls Gurley … I'm sorry, but no one here is defending that and even though you know it is wrong, your argument is… "Well Bush was bashed for it, so Obama should too!" As if that is solving any sort of issue. Come on…
Mar 13, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate … There is a double standard, but we all know that oil prices are not decided by the president. So…? The media is the media for a reason… They overkill stories that are not stories.
Mar 13, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate He has created jobs what have the republicans done to help?
Mar 13, 2012
Theresa Zane The last time I reviewed obama's election campaign from 2008, he discussed how he would like to see gas prices rise to 10$ a gallon to encourage americans to go green…
Mar 13, 2012
rough, not ruff
Mar 14, 2012
Jean McDade LMAO!!!! Your kidding right???? Food stamp and welfare doesntcount as a government Job!!!!
Mar 18, 2012
If you believe these headlines than you're an idiot! Fox News is GOP TV News!
Mar 23, 2012
Paula Qualls Gurley That is not true, Paula, the Democrats never made a fuss over it.We have Fox News video's to prove their change in attitude.Politics is one thing Facts are another.
Mar 23, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate You must have learned this on the Republican channel,known to some as Fox News, ha ha.
Mar 23, 2012
Leonard Dean Wingate You must have learned this on the Republican channel,known to some as Fox News, ha ha.
Apr 24, 2012
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